Jest Quotes

109 Jest quotes by 89 unique authors

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which… — Aristotle
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny. — Neil Gaiman
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and… — James Joyce
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or… — Oscar Wilde
Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made. — Edgar Allan Poe
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are… — Paul Simon
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. — Emily Dickinson
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love… — Olive Ann Burns
riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know one, bro. — Keri Arthur
Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For… — Edgar Allan Poe
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. — Arthur Conan Doyle
....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a… — David Foster Wallace
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection. — Diana Gabaldon
I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow,… — AndrÃ© Aciman
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — — Alexandre Dumas
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
In jest, there is truth. — William Shakespeare
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. — William Shakespeare
...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I… — Kevin Hearne
[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a… — Ian Doescher

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